How much did you spend on IT last year? And how much more do you plan on spending this year? Per Gartner, global IT spending in 2024 will total over $4.9 trillion growing 3.3% over 2023.
Worldwide IT Spending Forecast (Millions of U.S. Dollars)
Source: Gartner (January 2023)
Industry growth in technology is never a bad thing, but at the end of the day, your organization’s annual budget is what drives your IT forward. Likewise, most organizations constantly seek cost-savings where they can to help the bottom line. Even in abundant times, the desire to save on expenses and improve ROI will always be a North Star for many.
At Automox, we see cost and complexity going hand-in-hand. Case in point, with endpoint management. Running across multiple OSs, third-party apps, and endpoints located virtually anywhere can make for complicated and costly endpoint management. It doesn’t have to be this way. By implementing the right platform, using automation, and uncovering the value of integrations, you can be a lean and mean (in the nicest way) IT machine.
Let's look at the best ways to slash costs and maintain a less complex environment.
1. Choose your IT platforms wisely
As IT investments compound and your environment scales, often so does the IT management and maintenance of these investments. With the remote workforce being now the status quo for many, the dynamics of the IT environment also changed due to endpoints distributed virtually anywhere, from the cloud to on-prem sites. Regardless of their location, these endpoints still need to be controlled, managed, and secured.
Fortunately, investing in cloud-native solutions has been on a continued upswing with many now managing their infrastructure via a Cloud Service Provider (CSP) with cloud-enabled software and apps removing the constraints of legacy technology
So, what does a platform designed for the modern workforce look like? To begin, it has a genuine, cloud-native architecture. Many cloud tools are more accurately described as cloud-hosted. You can learn more about this distinction in the Cloud-Native vs. Fake Cloud: What You Need to Know to Make the Best IT Operations Decisions blog.
Technologies developed in the cloud are typicallyelastic and extensible. Specifically, cloud-native is an on-demand, elastic, multi-tenant service, accessible anywhere from any device – and with measured and monitored usage.
Developed from the ground up in the cloud ourselves, Automox is the IT operations platform for modern organizations. It makes it easy to keep cross-platform endpoints patched, configured, controlled, and secured – without servers to manage or VPNs.
Automation-ready and integration-friendly, Automox makes endpoint management a snap while keeping your employees productive and your organization secure – VPN and hassle-free.
2. Harness the power of automation
Today’s IT teams need to respond promptly to routine requests like software installations. They must enforce company policies for endpoint and server configuration. And when software vulnerabilities are detected, they have to meet compliance SLAs.
The key to ensuring IT teams are more effective and able to tackle these heavy workloads is leveraging tools that automate the crushing manual tasks that get in the way of more productive work.
One way to harness the power of automation is by using Automox Worklets™. Worklets allow IT to automate and enforce any scriptable action on endpoints regardless of location or domain, from software deployment to enforcing local configuration policies on an endpoint. If it can be scripted in PowerShell (Windows) or Bash (Linux and macOS), it can be automated across your organization's devices.
Here are some common use cases for Automox Worklets that help slash your costs, reduce the complexity of IT management, and help you take your time back:
Apply software updates to a targeted group of endpoints
Enforce standardized endpoint configurations
Remove unauthorized software
Disable USB ports and remote login capability
3. Leverage best-in-breed solutions
As organizations continue to invest in platforms for security, endpoint management, ITSM, etc., increasing focus should be placed on their ability to integrate. Integration not only optimizes your investments but can open doors to new data insights, enhanced capabilities, and collaboration. In an ideal environment, the goal is to seamlessly integrate with the tools and services already found in your cloud environment. Having a centralized tech stack provides a holistic view, enables consolidated reporting, and improves cross-team sharing capabilities.
Automox is working with your industry-leading vendor technologies, from Rapid7, and Freshworks, to Splunk, to open doors and uncover new joint partner capabilities, from enhancing your user’s experience to remediating vulnerabilities fast, see where our industry-leading partnerships can take you.
Our partnerships include ecosystem alliances, integrations, and workflow enhancements to allow your IT staff to remediate vulnerabilities, consolidate and collaborate with ease, and speed up IT tasks.
Finally, understanding the cost of time, and employees' salaries, can help you see the true cost of your investments.
To help you better extract these costs, we’ve developed a cost calculator that breaks down the difference in time and money you can win back with Automox. We’ve done the math – but to get a custom, real-world look at what your potential savings are, just answer a few questions about your organization’s endpoint management program, and we'll give you an instant calculation.
Take it for a spin and see where you can slash complexity – and costs!
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